Events Date 1943 August | History by KabAstro

Film & TV History

Aug 2 Gene Roddenberry pilots B-17 'Yankee Doodle' which crashes on takeoff, killing two

Screenwriter and Creator of Star Trek Gene Roddenberry

JFK Boat Sinks

Aug 2 Lt John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands

Aug 2 Sunderland seaplanes sink U-706 and U-106

Patton Slaps GI

Aug 3 General George S. Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice

Aug 3 Nazi occupiers attack city of Orel, leave it on fire

Churchill Departs for Canada

Aug 4 British premier Winston Churchill travels on the Queen Mary to Canada

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Aug 4 Soviet units reach suburbs of Orel
Aug 4 USAAF bombs Germans in Troina
Aug 5 Sicily: 3 US A-36's bomb British headquarters
Aug 5 Soviet forces reconquer Orel and Bjelgorod
Aug 5 World War II: at around 11 A.M during the Battle of Troina, Mount Etna erupts sending ash and lava miles into the sky
Aug 6 US 1st Infantry division occupies node Troina Sicily
Aug 7 Red Army recaptures Bogodukov
Aug 8 Common Chiefs of staff meet in Quebec
Aug 8 US amphibians land at St Agata on North coast of Sicily
Aug 8 Vegetables & fruit rationed in Holland

Life of Galileo

Aug 9 Bertolt Brecht's play "Life of Galileo" premieres in Zurich

Hitler Views Lynching

Aug 10 Adolf Hitler watches a lynching of allied pilots

Aug 10 Dutch submarine attacks Hertenbeest Island, NW Bali
Aug 10 US General George S. Patton slaps a battle fatigued soldier at an evacuation hospital "cowardly" and threatens him with a pistol
Aug 11 Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov

Strauss' Second Horn Concerto

Aug 11 Richard Strauss' Second Horn Concerto, premieres at the Salzburg Festival with Gottfried von Freiberg as soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic under Karl Böhm

Aug 11 US amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily
Aug 12 Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.
Aug 13 Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk from the German army in Kaluga Oblast, Russia
Aug 14 -Aug 24th: Quadrant conference over strike in Pacific Ocean
Aug 14 1st allied air raid on Borneo
Aug 14 US 45th Division occupies Falcone 40 km outside of Messina
Aug 15 Allies land on Kiska, Aleutian islands
Aug 16 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily)
Aug 16 Bulgarian Tsar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler
Aug 17 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde (development base for the V weapons)
Aug 17 US 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17s during attack on Schweinfurt and Regensburg
Aug 17 US General George S. Patton enters Messina, completing the Allied conquest of Sicily

Final Salonika Jewish Convoy

Aug 18 Final convoy of Jews from Salonika, Greece, arrives at Auschwitz

Hubbell's Final Game

Aug 18 Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd and final game as NY beats Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-2 at the Polo Grounds, NYC

Aug 18 Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia
Aug 19 Belgian church excommunicates Nazi collaborator Léon Degrelle
Aug 19 US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen
Aug 21 Japan leaves Aleutian Islands
Aug 21 USSR names Andrei Gromyko as its Ambassador to the United States
Aug 22 Soviet troops free Karkov
Aug 23 50th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Largest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany; over 10,000 tanks take part, nearly 250,000 combatants killed
Aug 23 Red army recaptures Charkow
Aug 24 Philadelphia A's drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game
Aug 25 10th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 27, Washington 7 (48,471)